IMO the community can push D all the way up to 1 by simply providing a
html-interface to this newsgroups on several servers, and have google
display their advertisings on the pages of that html-interfaces.
-manfred

IMO the community can push D all the way up to 1 by simply providing a
html-interface to this newsgroups on several servers, and have google
display their advertisings on the pages of that html-interfaces.
-manfred

You are probably right however that it itself may increase the
popularity of D.

IMO the community can push D all the way up to 1 by simply providing a
html-interface to this newsgroups on several servers, and have google
display their advertisings on the pages of that html-interfaces.

IMHO doing an action only to increase Tiobe rating is cheating, which is
ridiculous.
renoX

IMHO doing an action only to increase Tiobe rating is cheating,
which is ridiculous.

Every index based on buzz is vulnerable to spam.
After Google noticed such spam in 2004 and cancelled it out, Tiobe
reintroduced that spam by including it from MSN and Yahoo. Despite of
this, Tiobe considers the index as based on "strategic data".
If you cannot falsify that those "strategic data" sets are built up by
cheating, as you say, then what is the value of that index?
-manfred

IMHO doing an action only to increase Tiobe rating is cheating,
which is ridiculous.

Every index based on buzz is vulnerable to spam.
After Google noticed such spam in 2004 and cancelled it out, Tiobe
reintroduced that spam by including it from MSN and Yahoo. Despite of
this, Tiobe considers the index as based on "strategic data".
If you cannot falsify that those "strategic data" sets are built up by
cheating, as you say, then what is the value of that index?
-manfred

If you look at the list, although subject to error, the languages you
would expect are at the top. At the very least its a fuzzy indication
of where some languages are compared to others at least in terms of
search ability/presents on the web.
I have a feeling that D should be much lower on the list as many of the
other languages have been used in more commercial applications then D.
-Joel

At the very most its a fuzzy indication, but it isn't even presented as
such.
Would you give a dime for an index of 50 different web servers, where
someone pinged them once a month, declares those ping values to be
"strategic data" and presents some diagrams showing how the ping values
are changing over the years?
Obviously one can produce a similar argument, that such an index must
be at least (put eupehemistic words here), because as expected those
servers located more closely have indeed a better index than those
located further away.
-manfred